This form of massage therapy combines medical and sports massage techniques to promote healing and address pain from soft-tissue injuries.  Orthopedic massage therapy has three steps: assessment, creating a treatment plan, and finally treatment and adaptation. Therapists employs a range of bodywork techniques but focuses on a client’s musculoskeletal system. Because orthopedic massage is used to great medical ailments, extensive training is required of a therapist.

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